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Tiffany Sia

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Shelly Kraicer @shellyk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Attending the world premiere of Tiffany Sia’s @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social first feature OVERT LISTENING today at the New York FF. An landscape/Cold War essay-poem, shot on Taiwan’s Kinmen Island, a former (and quietly, current) front line of history & geography www.filmlinc.org/nyff2026/fil...
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Overt Listening
Hong Kong–born artist Tiffany Sia confronts the Cold War legacy of China in this landscape film shot amidst the serene environs of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, where a major battle took place at the e...
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a first full draft of an essay I'm about to hand in, and three days prior to the deadline, I've decided I'm going to beat this thing to shreds
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/09/2026
Social media is weird because if you give people a good feeling they will be overfamiliar with you, and if you do not do that they treat you like a human yelp page
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m... Less melodrama than meta-drama, the first movie to address the history of Chinese film — conflating the golden age of Shanghainese cinema (and Shanghai) w that of Hong Kong. Maggie Cheung proves herself a unique silent star — as contemporary as she is anachronistic.
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‘Center Stage’: A Star of Shanghai’s 1930s Heyday Is (Re)Born (Gift Article)
This 1991 film is at once a biopic devoted to the Chinese silent-film star, Ruan Lingyu, and a self-reflexive documentary starring Maggie Cheung.
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
i want to write an essay about air conditioning
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
brief definition of #algorithmicfolklore in the wonderful "Imagining the internet(s): A collaborative glossary" edited by @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and @nathaliefridz.bsky.social
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
famous for missing the point
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
in the absolute hell of waiting
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
to convert it into a claim
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
mendacity
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
the stomach to kill ideas again and again and revive them just the same again and again
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 26/12/2025
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇
Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.
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New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 31/08/2025
New Bloom is among the signatories on this important statement regarding the developing situation in Indonesia
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[Joint Statement] Indonesia: Protecting the Right to Protest: International Solidarity with Indonesia #StopPoliceBrutality! - FORUM-ASIA
International Solidarity Protecting the Right to Protest: International Solidarity with Indonesia #StopPoliceBrutality! On 28th and 29th August 2025, tens of thousands of Indonesian workers protested ...
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
the real honor is to make it to the omissions
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Taiwan Trails and Tales @taiwantrailsandtales.com · 29/08/2025
Dramatic light over Taipei tonight.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025
Because the thing is, this is real but also, it's not real. This image reflects the reality that Trump *wants* a total state in which he is the unquestioned leader, but we do not actually live in that state, at least not yet.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
the failure of the fool
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
tricking myself into writing again and again
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
uses of enchantment
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
a leaky relation, not diametric or ideologically opposite as Cold War tales and clichés might purport
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Nan Z. Da explores King Lear, Maoist China, and the unpredictable nature of power.
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Tyranny as Tragedy: On King Lear, Maoist China and the Unpredictable Nature of Power
I had a remarkable freshman student who intuitively understood the modality of totalitarianism, and how it might be represented in literary form. In class she made the offhand comment that in King …
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
And if again she responds
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
the residual heart of dissent
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Every road and highway ever built was a subsidy to the automotive industry.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"There definitely wasn't any censorship and if there was it's just because there wasn't market demand" Succinct account of China's capitalism + authoritarian ideology
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"The fact that the relevant country took timely measures precisely shows that the promotion of the fallacies of 'Tibetan independence', 'East Turkestan Islamic Movement' and 'Hong Kong independence' has no market internationally and is unpopular" -PRC Foreign Ministry
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China says Thai art show 'distorts' its policies on Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong
China on Monday accused organisers of an exhibition in Thailand of distorting Chinese policies on Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong after the show's co-curator said artworks were removed or altered at Beijing's request.
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
caught up in the accidents of taxonomy
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Ed Halter @edhalter.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I will be giving a talk in an abandoned Uniqlo in Fanueil Hall, Boston, on Oct 4th. Details TK.
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
next time a school asks me to teach adjunct I will propose teaching a course that is all about when to not make art. something to aspire to
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
had a dream about wag the dog
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Not great. on.ft.com/45oZ92y
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China to restrict Tibetan language in region’s college entrance exam
Exclusion of core subject exam stokes fears Beijing is furthering campaign to ‘Sinicise’ region
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“Writing makes states”
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Socialism with Chinese characteristics has delivered nationwide high speed rail, cutting edge AI and EVs, and sent people to space but cannot devise a system to make sure construction workers get paid for their labor
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...
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‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lock-up Inside 26 Federal Plaza
An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.
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Tiffany Sia @t1ffany4scale.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"Sometimes I go on the Internet to view CNN or BBC news, and this reminds me very much to the American film "Wag the Dog" with Robert de Niro and Dustin Hoffman. Have you seen it? I would like to be optimistic and to believe it is going to end soon, but...?" www.independentliving.org/docs6/rajkov...
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A Personal Letter from Belgrade, Serbia - Written during the current NATO bombings in Yugoslavia | Independent Living Institute
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
If anyone tells you US Constitutional democracy is fine, nothing to worry about, then they’re wrong. But if anyone tells you it’s all over, as if the US is a consolidated authoritarian state, they’re also wrong. That defeatism, with its preemptive surrender, is what the fascists want you to think.
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Authoritarians Want You To Quit
Don't withdraw entirely, but it's OK to partially disengage. The future will be tough, and you're in better position to fight if you stay sane. Here's how I'm adjusting.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The US features democratic backsliding, as elected officials dismantle checks & balances and rule of law from within. It’s a process. 21st century versions seen in Turkey, Hungary, India, Venezuela, and more. Political science now classifies the US as a mixed regime / anocracy / partial democracy.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Authoritarianism has variations and degrees. Some prefer thinking of it as a binary, but it’s not. Is the US currently operating as a democracy, following its Constitution? Objectively no. But Russia doesn’t see big “No Kings” protests. China wouldn’t allow Bluesky. North Korea allows nothing.
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